20th August 2007, they entered our lives. Unconscious of how much you loved them, you used to miss your dinner to just watch a show called Dill Mill Gayye. Armaan, Riddhima, Atul, Anjali & Sapna - you just wished they were your own friends in reality because they seemed like the best friends you could ever have. As days passed by, your last thought before sleeping would be about Armaan & Riddhima; how they should be, what they should do to confess, etc. etc. A small close scene would make you shudder and send goose bumps all over your body, you would blush even more than Riddhima would. A few months passed, and Rahul-Muskaan entered just to make our lives even harder when AR already were having a fight. But who knew, RM would end up giving you some of the most entertaining scenes! Karan, Shilpa, Pankit, Sunaina, Mayank, Drashti & Muskaan - the originals who could never be replaced in our hearts. As days passed by, DMG became "a daily routine". Unfortunately, bidding Muskaan her farewell after her marriage to Amit as Sapna, and being so thankful to her for giving us so many romantic scenes of AR, she gave us a sweet, homely character that we still can't forget. Every single day, even if you watched the episode, you took every other chance to grab the remote, turn the TV on and watch the repeat a gazillion times without getting bored. You just wanted every single episode of SBS and other programs to cover DMG just so that you would get to see more off-screen moments full of fun with your favorite cast! Undoubtedly and unknowingly, they all held a very special place in your heart, which none of you realized until one day when it all fell apart.
20th May 2008, SBS and Shilpa Anand give you one of the most heartbreaking news you could ever imagine. "Haan, yeh sach hai ki main ja rahi hoon" - at that moment, you realize how big of a fan you were of the actors and not characters. You didn't want to accept she was leaving even when the fact was that, she was gone. She was gone but the hopes inside you weren't. KaSh, you realized it was them and the way they portrayed AR so beautifully that they made you fall in love with the show. The way the whole gang made the show so special for you was something that couldn't be explained. 29th May 2008, there she is bidding goodbye to every single person there and your heart was beating too quick and too slow at the same time; too quick in not wanting to let go and too slow wanting him to come there and stop her from leaving. You see everyone's real emotions there; about how they really didn't want someone so close to go - and you wished DD and KSG were there too so that you had one last chance to see them together. But you see her moving towards the car, scanning the place one last time, a bit puzzled, not wanting to let go but yet having to, and then you see her waving goodbye one last time, and entering the car. Finally, you see him looking so heartbroken and in need to hold on to the person he called his own, as if his life was slowly slipping away from him with every passing moment.
At this point, you realize that things will never be the same again. This vivacious, high-spirited gang of six interns, six best friends, six individual backgrounds, six individual dilemmas, and three love stories, were never going to remain as cheery and fun as they were at this time. Well for some who don't agree, you might be thinking that it's just one person; you can easily just be the same without them. But can you really? God forbid, if one of your best friends in your group just vanished, would you really be able to remain the same? There's always going to be that empty space, and there's always going to be that one wish to have them back. Try applying this to the DMG Gang. Would the DMG Gang be the same gang without Armaan? Or without Riddhima? Atul? Anjali? Muskaan? Rahul? The answer was, is, and always will be, no. Shilpa's exit was the first time we lost KaSh, but it was also the last time we saw the original DMG Gang. The emotions that ran through everyone's hearts' were indescribable. Thoughts like: this isn't true, this can't be true, ran through our minds, and our hearts were shattering piece by piece. Just the thought that the love and friendship KaSh displayed, wasn't going to illuminate our screens anymore, would leave no second into bringing tears in our eyes. Our hearts were not ready to let the news sink in, but this didn't mean we lost hope. Every new sunrise brought another new hope into our lives: that one day, we will see KaSh again. That one day, we will see our original DMG gang, laughing their heads off after playing a prank. We know that the friendship Karan, Shilpa, Pankit, Sunaina, Mayank, and Drashti shared off screen was so strong, and that one day, they themselves will want to come back together and charm us once again.
There are two things that KaShians have, that we care more about than anything else: hope and togetherness. "We don't need no glam or press, all we need is togetherness." Isn't that one of our mottos? KaSh and the DMG Gang may have gone, but does that erase our unity? Does that erase our hope that they all indeed, will be back? No! The next time someone asks you, "You're addicted to DMG, what do you even get out of it? What do you learn from the show?" Tell them that we learn how to stick together when times get tough, and that losing hope is never an option. When Shilpa came back, what did Karan say? He said, "made me wait two years, but it was worth the wait." Our own Superman had HOPE, guys. He knew that Shilpa will come back, just at the right time. Karan's wishful thinking worked, and ours did too, and if we don't give up, we can experience even more beautiful moments of not only KaSh, but the entire DMG Gang, again.
Although this day brings back immense pain in every KaShian and DMGian's heart, we have to realize that we part only to meet again. KaSh and the DMG Gang didn't receive their happy endings. If KaShians still watched DMG we hoped to see Atul-Anjali and Rahul-Muskaan unite, but did they? Unfortunately, no. We need to keep hoping, and keep believing that this dream of ours will come true, and that we WILL get our happy ending. And if we don't get it next time, then so what? "agar teekh na ho, toh woh 'the end' nahi, picture abhi baaki hai" No happy ending = there's more to come! For those who got their happy ending, well, congratulations, but it's KaSh and the DMG Gang's turn now, and they WILL get a happy ending. We haven't backed down before, and we're not ever going to, because giving up is not what the DMG gang has taught us to do. ;)
spreading lots of love, hope, and smiles,
riya & zaynoo. :)
and thank you nori for making the sig :)
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